{"id":95793,"date":"2020-10-23T08:49:59","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T05:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-final-2020-debate-how-donald-trump-lost-to-joe-biden\/"},"modified":"2020-10-23T08:49:59","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T05:49:59","slug":"watch-final-2020-debate-how-donald-trump-lost-to-joe-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-final-2020-debate-how-donald-trump-lost-to-joe-biden\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Final 2020 Debate: How Donald Trump Lost to Joe Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a40b252967de\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a40b252967de\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-final-2020-debate-how-donald-trump-lost-to-joe-biden\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_Final_2020_Debate_How_Donald_Trump_Lost_to_Joe_Biden%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online Final 2020 Debate: How Donald Trump Lost to Joe Biden&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-final-2020-debate-how-donald-trump-lost-to-joe-biden\/#%E2%80%9CFinal_2020_Debate_How_Donald_Trump_Lost_to_Joe_Biden%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Final 2020 Debate: How Donald Trump Lost to Joe Biden&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_Final_2020_Debate_How_Donald_Trump_Lost_to_Joe_Biden%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online Final 2020 Debate: How Donald Trump Lost to Joe Biden&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CFinal_2020_Debate_How_Donald_Trump_Lost_to_Joe_Biden%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Final 2020 Debate: How Donald Trump Lost to Joe Biden&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n                        Whatever your opinion of Donald Trump, there\u2019s no denying that he has a sixth sense not just for lowering the bar but for keeping it low, for taking previously unacceptable levels of presidential bad behavior and normalizing them, for turning rage, chaos, and lies into everyday reality. The latest example might be the way that at the second and final presidential debate, held between President Trump and his Democratic challenger, former Vice President Joe Biden, at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn., Trump largely abandoned the insult-comic-on-Adderall, I-interrupt-therefore-I-am kamikaze tactics that defined his performance during the first debate. And the result of that change is that for a short while, it <em>almost<\/em> felt like you were watching the most sedately civilized presidential debate in American history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, he\u2019s actually speaking calmly and answering the questions! He\u2019s waiting for Biden to finish. He practically sounds (gulp) presidential!\u201d Okay, let\u2019s not exaggerate. Just because Trump was on his relative best behavior didn\u2019t mean that he sounded presidential; he still sounded like a bellicose used-car salesman plucking fake facts out of the air. But the notion that this could play as such a vast \u201cimprovement\u201d just shows you how quickly Trump lowers, and trashes, our standards.<\/p>\n<p>Both candidates, of course, were dealing with a telling tweak in the rules: Their microphones would each be shut off during the opposing candidate\u2019s initial two-minute response to a new question. So Trump, during Biden\u2019s answers, couldn\u2019t have interrupted if he wanted to. Nevertheless, that rule tweak \u2014 the sound-<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a> equivalent of putting a dog in a shock collar \u2014 did have its intended effect; it got Trump to restrain himself. According to reports, so did his advisers, who looked at the decidedly negative response to Trump\u2019s first debate performance and basically said to him, \u201cBy turning that night into a bullying free-for-all, you may have lost the election. If you don\u2019t behave this time, you\u2019ll be blowing a hole in your own leg.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So Trump, though he still glowered like an actor playing an obscenely sun-tanned crime boss, reverted to his less overtly hostile and more familiar pushy, blithe, nothing-ruffles-me, dodging-the-question-by-glomming-onto-Fox-<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a>-talking-points self. And the moderator, NBC\u2019s Kristen Welker, was superb, not only keeping the peace but serving her follow-ups with supreme flow.<\/p>\n<p>A used-car salesman, of course, has different modes and knows when to use each of them. There\u2019s the high-pressure technique, which works on a certain kind of customer (let\u2019s call that Trump at a rally); there\u2019s the soft sell (that\u2019s Trump talking about how much his administration has done for Black colleges). And then there\u2019s what Trump did for most of the night, which is stick to that rosy \u201csincere\u201d middle tone that almost makes it sound like he\u2019s singing the words, because what he wants you to listen to isn\u2019t the specific spiel he\u2019s making about the car. (He actually doesn\u2019t want you to pay much attention to that.) It\u2019s all about the trust you should have in him.<\/p>\n<p>And so Trump, once again, tried to sell us. Why did he pay little or no taxes for so many years? Actually, \u201cI prepaid.\u201d (Oh, so that money somehow wasn\u2019t <em>counted<\/em>?) Asked about his buddy-buddy relationship with the North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un (which, as Trump evokes it, really does sound like something out of a Seth Rogen movie), he completely bypassed how much his attempt to get North Korea to de-nuclearize had failed, but he kept saying that there has been \u201cno war\u201d \u2014 by which he meant a nuclear war, so I guess he expected all of us to feel grateful for that. He repeated his litany of COVID-19 canards, which are starting to sound as familiar as sitcom tropes (\u201cI banned China, <em>he<\/em> said it was xenophobic\u201d\u2026Biden\u2019s handling of the swine flu was a \u201ctotal disaster\u201d\u2026Europe now has spikes\u2026Florida and Texas had spikes that are now \u201cover\u201d\u2026\u201dWe can\u2019t lock ourselves up in a basement the way Joe does!\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>And then, of course, there were the one-liners, which seem ready to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a> right from Trump\u2019s brain to a bumper sticker. \u201cIf he\u2019s elected, the stock market will crash!\u201d \u201cHe doesn\u2019t come from Scranton!\u201d \u201cThey spied on my campaign!\u201d \u201cNobody is tougher than me on Russia!\u201d \u201cNo one has done more for the Black community than Donald Trump!\u201d Oh, and those 545 children of migrants who are still totally disconnected from their parents? \u201cThey are <em>so <\/em>well taken care of!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I lead with talking about Trump\u2019s performance because this really was his last major shot to shift the paradigm of the election, which doesn\u2019t <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ear to be tilting his way. For a long time, it was Joe Biden who needed to prove himself \u2014 to prove that he\u2019s not just the veteran politician but, at 77, the happy warrior, that he\u2019s mentally vigorous, that he\u2019s not beholden to the left wing of the Democratic Party that he fought off to win the nomination, and that he simply has\u2026the Right Stuff. That, as we\u2019ve learned over the last 40 years, is the candidate people vote for. (We learned it big time with John Kerry vs. George W. Bush.) It\u2019s not enough to have the better policies, or to radiate a sense of decency, though all that helps. You\u2018ve got to look like you could win a fight and \u2014 more than that \u2014 that you\u2019d enjoy fighting.<\/p>\n<p>That, let\u2019s be clear, is part of Donald Trump\u2019s P.T. Barnum-meets-Howard-Stern-meets-WWE-meets-Roy-Cohn showbiz political genius. He relishes the fight, and is good at it, and a lot of people like that about him. That\u2019s where he sets the bar.<\/p>\n<p>At tonight\u2019s debate, Joe Biden took that bar, leapt over it, and then grabbed it and gave Trump a few good whacks with it. He defeated Trump soundly: on policy, on passion, on truth (oh, that!), on having a vision for the future that makes you think we could actually get out of the mess we\u2019re in. As noxious as Trump was during the last debate, I was worried, at the time, that his strong-man tactics might end up making him seem\u2026well, strong. And though Biden, in the eyes of most, did what he had to do, giving America a solid alternative to what is turning out to be a slow descent into political and cultural insanity, my own feeling was that Biden\u2019s performance wasn\u2019t focused and decisive enough. To seal this deal, he needed to be better.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, he was better. And, in fact, he was better than that. He was poised, fast on his feet, but also a man who\u2019d come loaded for bear. He dealt powerfully with the false dichotomy that\u2019s settled into the red-state-vs.-blue-state coronavirus debate, the one that asks: \u201cAre you for lockdowns\u2026or for opening up?\u201d Biden deftly explained why it\u2019s not one or the other (and took an effective shot by saying \u201cI can walk and chew gum at the same time\u201d). He was righteous, with a hint of Dirty Harry, on the subject of foreign interference in elections, or when it came to talking about the laying off of cops and firefighters, or the Trump administration\u2019s failure to bail out small businesses or provide schools with the resources they need to re-open, or about how raising the minimum wage to $15 would <em>not<\/em> make small businesses go out of business.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, meanwhile, took no such stands, because he had no plans to defend. In a way, tonight\u2019s debate actually <em>was<\/em> a fine presidential debate, because it laid bare a truly coherent clash of visions: the vision of someone who wants to use government to help people, and is full of fire-tested ideas to do it, and the vision of someone who doesn\u2019t. Asked, point blank, and for the hundredth time, how he would replace the Affordable Care Act, Trump once again dithered and created health-insurance castles in the air. He\u2019s proud of having gotten rid of the ACA mandate (\u201cI terminated it \u2014 it\u2019s gone!\u201d). But would he answer the question? \u201cA much better health care.\u201d What does that mean? \u201cA beautiful health care\u2026.always protecting people with pre-existing conditions.\u201d But how? He\u2019s not saying.<\/p>\n<p>He did say that Joe Biden is coming to take away the health-care plans of 180 million people. But, in fact, he isn\u2019t, because, as he said, he fought off a number of the other Democratic candidates precisely because he <em>supports<\/em> private insurance. Spreading his arms in mock exasperation, Biden said, \u201cI guess we\u2019re going to get the pre-existing condition plan the same time we get the infrastructure plan.\u201d In other words, never.<\/p>\n<p>In his way, Biden proved that he could play Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>. During the last debate, he tried to rise above it all. Here, he counterpunched, smiling in mock disbelief only at the right moments (\u201cHe was there for 47 years, he didn\u2019t do it!\u201d \u2014 yes, that\u2019s Trump speaking about Biden and health care), and getting in a pretty damn funny line by calling Trump \u201cAbraham Lincoln\u201d (whom Trump had just compared himself to), a jab that hit hard enough that Trump, all testy and defensive, couldn\u2019t take it. He couldn\u2019t take a taste of his own medicine. 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